Hanged Man (Revision 839)

Hanged Man is a puzzle in Silent Hill 2. You will find it after defeating Abstract Daddy.

This puzzle is divided into two parts. The first room will have six stuffed bodies with a note on their face. Examine each one to discover their respective crimes and make a note of their positions as they will be random. Their crimes will be:

Counter fitting

Arson

Kidnapping

Swindling

Murder

Thievery

The second room will have six nooses hanging from the ceiling in the same order as the bodies from the first. Two signs will be next to the door. They first will give you a poem depending on the riddle difficulty. You need to figure out who the innocent man is based on this poem. The second sign tells you this:

"Notice! Pull ye balance on a rope's frayed end. Go and return and the error be mended. Beware ye though the punishment sended.

Only the sinless one can help you here. Mistakenly pull on a criminal's rope and your reward will be returned to you in a shape most wondrously strange."

Once you've figured out who the innocent man is, go to the noose that corresponds to his position in the first room and give it a tug. Return to the first room to find the Key of the Persecuted where the innocent man's body once hung.

Normal Difficulty

"Dead men, dead menswinging in a treeHow many dead mendo you see?Tongue turned blue andface gone greyWatch them as theytwist and sway.

The first one killedthe butcher manThen cooked him inthe frying panServed him to his hungry guestsAnd gave them seconds on request

The next one with his smileand sweetsStole poor children off the streetsTo men who dressed unsavoryHe sold them into slavery

Breaking into a home at nightThe thief he had a nasty frightFilled his foolish head with aleWoke in the mornin the county jail

The artist with his daunting skillsTried his hand at painting billsBut caught in rain he was undoneWhen the ink he'd use didstart to run

With promises of great returnTaking gold he did not earnBundled it up out of sightQuietly slipped off into the night

Three houses into ashes burnedThe sheriff with no place to turnDid spy a stranger to his townLocked him up and beat him down

Dead men, dead menswinging in a treeHow many dead mendo you see?Six feet long andsix men wideRound their necksthe noose be tied."

Solution: The correct answer is the Arsonist. The sheriff picked a stranger off the street and charged him with the crime.